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cudaken; Aren't you the guy that dropped the $12,000.00 engine in the dragster and had it come unglued after only 81 minutes of operation? or something like that? I can't believe that you are in sales; I tried my hand at sales three different times and each time I had to go back to work for wages because my commissions just weren't feeding the bulldog.  But I kept picking myself up off of the ground and giving it one more college try.  I got a $3752.00 commission check one time - one weeks work - and it was six weeks before I saw another penny.  I'll bet you've had the same experience!  I finally acknowledged that I was never going to be anything more than a mediocre salesman and I went on to other things - BUT I NEVER GAVE UP AFTER SIX MONTHS.  Sales can be invigorating one minute and the most depressing experience in the world the next - sometimes it's one "No" after another and then, wham, you get that magical string of "Yeses" and it makes it all worth while. You want to know aggravation; become a computer programmer - I've written programs in my sleep, that's how consuming it can become when you can't figure out why your code is not working.  And God only knows how many chapters of my novel have gone into the trash because my rhetoric just ain't workin'.  I finally burned myself out on computer programming but I'm NEVER giving up on my novel - It'll get written and it'll get published. You're not the first person to have troubles out on the line; I was operating our NTrak layout one time and it took me an hour and ten minutes before I got a train all the way around the loop without a derailment - and then it ran flawlessly for over two hours.  I've spilled trains on curves, picked points and sent cars onto adjacent tracks causing a multi-train pile up; I over-lubricated a loke one time and no matter how much Brite-Boy(R) I used everytime a train hit one particular stretch of mainline it came to a halt with the locomotive drivers spinning like crazy.  I've had coupler extractions and so has every rail on this forum. And there have been times - many times - when I was so aggravated that I wanted to find the nearest wastecan and consign hundreds of dollars worth of locomotives to the bottomless pit. I've been in this hobby since 1962 - but I went from 1964 until 1978 without a home layout - I was a member of three clubs and I built a bunch of locomotive kits in the intervening years and then switched from HO to N and it all went to a swapmeet.  Maybe one of the reasons I have survived is because I had those long periods of enforced inactivity.  I don't even have an operating layout right now - I remarried (I was a bachelor for 13 years) just a little more than two years ago and my new wife's presence in my house required me to more or less give up my train room; I've decided I can't rebuild it so its going to get discarded and I'm going to build one that is portable.  Here comes layout number 6 since I retired from the Air Force in 1978. Hang in there, Podnah; there's always a light at the end of the tunnel.  Give yourself a break - forty-eight or seventy-two hours or however long you think you need.  Go to the hobby shop and pick up a railroad oriented book to read - Brian Solomon is a fantastic writer and I would recommend anything with his authorship. Unfortunately, your description of your troubles of these last few days sounds suspiciously like you are trying to live in a world of makeshift repairs;  when you come back from your hiatus grab a paper and pencil and carefully analyze what happened on your pike that has caused you so much frustration and see if you can't determine what exactly happened - and then fix it once and for all.
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